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Woodrow Wilson: “At all times and under all systems there have been two sets of phenomena visible in government: the phenomena of command…”

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At all times and under all systems there have been two sets of phenomena visible in government: the phenomena of command and the phenomena of obedience, the phenomena of governing and the phenomena of being governed.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

This quote outlines the dual phenomena of command and obedience that exist in all forms of government.

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